strictest

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"What happened was barbaric, deplorable and shameful. We want the strictest punishment for those responsible," said Badshah Mian, managing director of Pioneer Knitwear.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2026

California, with its roughly 40 million residents, has some of the strictest waste laws in the nation.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

The European Union has some of the strictest data-privacy laws in the world, so the therapy might encounter fewer regulatory hurdles in other parts of the world.

From Slate • Dec. 18, 2025

At the center of the debate is the act’s “blanket rule,” which automatically applies the strictest “endangered”-level protections to all threatened species unless the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025

But these debates had all occurred behind closed doors and under the strictest code of confidentiality.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis